Shamshir (3.5e Equipment)

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Date Created:	November 11, 2009
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Balance:	Wizard

A shamshir.

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A shamshir is extremely similar to a scimitar in it's shape and design, and actually, a shamshir, in the hands of anyone without the appropriate exotic weapon proficiency feat, will act as a scimitar. However, there are certain characteristics unique of the shamshir that, with extensive training, can allow it's wielder to be much more effective in it's use.

Mastery Bonus: A mastery bonus allows a character with weapon focus to gain a unique benefit from an exotic weapon:

Shamshir Mastery Bonus Tree:

• +1: The character, when weilding a shamshir, may use their Dexterity modifier instead of their Strength modifier on attack rolls..
• +2: If an attack roll made by a character wielding of a shamshir misses, then that character gains a +1 bonus to AC against the foe they missed (This AC bonus never increases beyond +1, and goes away after the character weilding the shamshir makes a succesful attack roll against the target in question, but can apply against multiple foes at the same time).
• +3: When wielding a shamshir the character gains a +4 bonus on attack rolls made whenever they make an attack of opportunity.
• +4: A character, when weilding a shamshir, and taking a full attack option, may take 10 on the first attack rolls they make in that full attack option.
• +5: The character wielding the shamshir gains the ability to, whenever they score a critical hit with it, also deal 2 points of Constitution damage (This is in addition to any ability score damage the attack might have caused).

A mastery bonus tree only ever applies to the specific weapon it is assossiated with, for example, if a character with the feats exotic weapon proficiency (shamshir) and weapon focus (shamshir) wields a weapon with a mastery bonus tree and the aptitude propriety^ToB, other than a shamshir, they do not gain the benefit of that weapons mastery bonus tree, despite the fact that they are considered having the weapon focus feat with that weapon.

Note: This weapon is intended to be used with the variant weapon focus created by TK-Squared.

see also: Shamshir

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